THESE are the times that try men's souls.

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Speaker 1 (00:11):
These are the times the trimends souls, the summer soldier
and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis shrink from
the service of their country. But he that stands it
now deserves the love and thanks a man and woman. Tyranny,
like hell, is not easily conquered. Yet we have this

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consolation with us that the heart of the conflict, the
more glorious the triumph Thomas Paine, the American crisis? What
else could I think be? Turn the music? What else
could best kind of explain where we are? Tony Katz

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ninety three WIBC. Good morning, Charlie Kirk, killed yesterday at
the age of thirty one, speaking to a college crowd
at Utah Valley University. This is the twenty fourth anniversary
of September eleventh. This is not an easy day. I
have often found from you that it is the not

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easy days where we show our best. This will not
be a conversation, at least from me today about the
glorifying of Charlie Kirk. I didn't know him. I didn't
always agree with him. He had a different view of
how to engage than I did. But there is no
question that his engagement worked. His engagement was effective. His

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engagement reached people. And there was absolutely no question that
when you could sit yourself down on a campus to
where the campus pours out to see you, to the
tune of thousands of people who want to watch him,
well really dismantle leftist arguments, to which he did. I

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think with rousing success. That is an oddity. That is
something and for many on a campus, for many in
America to see somebody stand up and say no, this,
this and this, and I am not swayed by the problem.

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It's good. It's one thing to hear it. It's another
thing to see it. It's another thing to feel. It's
nothing to experience it. That is impressive stuff. He's extremely
good at the recall, extremely good at finding in his
mind the obscure fact that would work to his favor.

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He didn't deserve to die assassinated as he would, murdered
as he would depending on how you want to say
these things. As he was speaking to a crowd engaging
in the debate, that we make claim matters in the nation,
but it's obvious that we are not one nation under God, indivisible.

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Rather we are indeed divided, as we have discussed as
we have discussed here, the only way out is through,
and we must identify what it is we are dealing with.
We don't know who shot Charlie Kirk. That person is
still on the run. They had a person of interest,
they let that person of interest go. We do not,
at least as publicly reported to have a suspect in custody.

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We don't. We do have plenty of people on the
political left cheering for Charlie Kirk's death, and we do
not go as September eleventh without reminding ourselves that we
are here, that we were attacked and we came through it.
I don't go a day without recognizing that the people

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of flight ninety three very well may have saved my life.
I'm here because of them. I am here because of them.
It is a rough day, a day, these are the
times that try men's souls. My gosh, that's on point.
And yet here we are waking up, taking a shower,

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drinking coffee, turning on the radio, and heading to work
because our lives go on with remembrance though. That's our
plan today. Tony Katz ninety three WIBC, Good morning,